Garment-supporter.



. H. 1. STUART.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED .IUNE Il, 1912.

Patented July 13, 1915.

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HENRY J'. STUART, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT, AUSSIGNOR TO THE ROBERT NJBASSTT COMPANY, OF SHELTON,`CONNECTICUT, A. CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed June 11, 1912. Serial No. 703,014. y

T0 all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRYJ. STUART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ansonia, in Vthe county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in. Garment-Supporters, of which the following 1s a specification. i

My .invention relates to hose supporters and its object is to provide adevice of this character in which the expedient of sewing the supporting strap and button tab can be entirely eliminated. T attain this and other obj ects of my invention in the preferred embodiment thereof set forth in'the following description and accompanying drawing 1n which like reference characters referto cor,- responding parts.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a front view of my hose supporter; Fig. 2, an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal section; Fig. 3, an enlarged fragmentary rear view, and Fig. 4, an enlarged fragmentary view showing the parts in position to be assembled.

My invention generally comprises the supporting strap A, the binder B, the button loop C and the button tab D which latter carries a button E. The binder B is suitably blanked out of sheet metal and folded on itself to form a pair of gripping lips 2 and 3 each of which is pierced inwardly to form spurs 4, 4. The bend in the binder is provided with a slot 6 which is equal in length to the width of the tab D. The lower end 7 of the supporting strap A, the upper end 8 of the button tab D and the inwardly projecting pintles 9, 9, forming the top side` of the loop C, are all fastened within the binder in a manner which will hereinafter be described. In forming the binder the lips 2 and 3 are left openor at an angle to each other as shown in Fig. 4. n

In assembling the parts the end 8 of the tab D is threaded through the slot 6 Afrom the outside after which it is grasped by the fingers of the operator and drawn through the binder until its end 8 projects beyond the edges of the lips.- The loop C is then passed over the lip 2 and the pintles 9, 9 drawn down against the end'8 of the tab at or immediately adjacent to the bend 5 in the binder. The upper opening in the loop is slightly narrower than the length of the lip 2, so that, when the loop is passed over the lip, its sides strike against the beveled corners 5,?) thereby causing the pintles to spread or spring apart as the loop is drawn down toward the bend 5. This springing action of the loop causes the same to frictionally engage the sides of the fold and enables the vpintles to becomeseated and to hold the end widened portion and drawn down so that its shank engages the bottom` of the narrow i portion in the usual manner of fastening the button in the loop. This drawing down of the button also draws down on the tab which latter slips back again through the slot until the tab is taut between the button and the binder. This method of assembling the tab not only may be accomplished with great speed but also prevents the same from being left too long or too short to properly coperate with the loop. The slot 6 being of the same width as the tab centers the same in the binder when the tab is pulled back by the button. The tab, loop and binder thus assembled may without the supporting strap form an article of manufacture suitable for the trade, since it is sometimes the custom for corset and hose supporter firms to purchase the parts thus assembled and fasten thereto their own straps or webbing. To fasten the supporting strap it is merely necessary to insert the end 7 between the lips 2 and 3, or to be more exact, between the lip 2 and the end 8 of the tab, and then to swage the lips together on to the ends of the strap and tab. The gripping action of the lips, if desired, may be supplemented by the penetrating spurs 4, 4. When the thickness of the wire forming the pintles 9, 9 is greater than the combined thickness of the ends of the tab and strap the waging of the lips on to the ends of these latter causes the bend 5 of the binder to draw tightly around the pintles and thereby forms a cylindrical sleeve which incases the pintles and that part of the tab end passing around one side of the pintles. A crimp t is thus formed in the tab end, which taken together with the gripping action of the lips and binding action of the tab around the rear edge of the slot 6, securely fastens the tab end within the binder so that it cannot be pulled out when grasped by the wearer to pull down or stretch the supporter.v It should be noticed that a niinimum length of tape and webbing may be used in forming the tab and strap since no Waste occurs at the binder in doubling o`r folding the extremities. For this same reason the supporter is very flat and thin and presents a substantially flush ysurface on both its front and rear faces. It shouldbe further noticed that the side edges of the supporting strap are unconned so that the saine 'size binder may be used on different Widths rof webbing. I

Although `the device above described embodies the preferred forni of 'my invention vyetthe saine is susceptible to such modifications las may fairly come Wvi'thin the scope of the `appended claims- Having noW described iny invention what v'Isla-iin vand desire to protect by Letters Patent is: p

l. s an varticle of manufacture the combination vvith a button loop and button tab,

of a Ibinder made Aout of a single piece of sheet "inetal bent up to present a pair of "'Uopifsof V'this V'patent mayibebt'ain'et vfor ve cents each, "by 'addressing the open Web-gripping lips, the bend in the binder being slotted transversely to admit the lfree end of 'the tab into the binder, and the lbutton loop having its top side sprung in-to the lbend beside the end of the tab so as to frictionally engage the sides of the bend to hold the tab in engagement with the binder.

2. As 'an article'of manufacture a garment supporter comprising a supporting strap, a

button loop,'and button tab and a sheet nieta-1 'binder having a pair of gripping lips .joinedby a bend, the lips being sivaged on to the ends of the strap and tab, the bend being 'transversely slotted 'to admit the end of the Qta'b in'to 'the binder, andthe top side of the loop being seated beside the tab inside the Commissioner of Patents, 

